Keystone Heights student dies saving classmate from oncoming truck

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A Keystone Heights teenager died Friday saving a schoolmate from an oncoming vehicle as they were walking to a school bus stop, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said.

Shane Savoy, 18, and Elin Cornett, 17, were walking on the edge of Rachette Road near County Road 214 when an oncoming pickup truck approached without seeing them, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Savoy tried pushing Cornett out of the way, though both were struck about 6:25 a.m., the Sheriff’s Office said. No charges have been filed against the unidentified driver, who stopped and tried to help the pair.

Savoy, a senior at Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School, was hospitalized in critical condition but died later, the Sheriff’s Office said. Cornett, a junior, was treated and released from a hospital.